Our Thanksgiving

This morning, I am full and content. The garage is a lively and noisy place right now as Brett rifles through attic boxes, and two little girls enthusiastically await the day’s decorating.

Our Thanksgiving snippets:

Seventh Annual Neighbor-But-Moreso-Beloved-Friends Pajama Breakfast

I might spray paint everything silver this holiday.

Our first fire this season

And the Homey Family Traditions that Followed

Bring on the holiday playlists, and have a wonderful weekend.

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My girls each have one, and our Sweet Seats give us a good opportunity to get out of high chairs and kid tables and join the family for a more intimate meal.

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As you pick up little holiday goodies for those you love during this shopping season, I want to take this opportunity and thank you for your support of Enjoying the Small Things sponsors. We love the businesses we’ve worked with this year and have enjoyed learning the stories behind how they’ve developed and grown, allowing many mamas to stay home, small ideas to bloom, and great products, art and services to reach homes that appreciate them.

This was our first Thanksgiving back in the US after over a decade in the UK. I wasn’t up for cooking the whole big meal as I’m nearly 7 months pregnant, and our kitchen is super tiny. And with both our families so far away, it didn’t seem worth all the effort. But next year we will have our own house and I am going to cook the crap out of a mighty big turkey with ALL the trimmings. 🙂

Sorry I’m getting so slack with comments on your blog, I still read your posts but for some reason I comment more on IG. I’ve been loving your posts recently, maybe I recognise some of your Mama to be emotions and thoughts in myself, but oh so eloquently penned by you. Your blog here holds such a valuable vault of memories, seeing your family grow and change makes me want to ensure I record the little things too. The pics of your girls in front of the fire, made my heart melt and I’m not sure how you didn’t shed a happy tear! Happy Thanksgiving Kelle, I am SO thankful I googled birth story a few years ago and stumbled upon your blog, I have found a kindred spirit on the other side of the world! Hugs to you and yours. Xx Marian

oh kelle I just adore what you capture in your photos, a home filled with family and LOVE. the girls party dresses are beautiful, the cuteness of nella’s stripey tights is too much!! our christmas decorations are going up this weekend, the carols have already been playing for weeks… x

Those girls are going to have such great memories of the holidays when they grow up! I am always thanking my parents for the wonderful memories I have of growing up….the summers, vacations, holidays. I’m so glad your girls are going to feel the same, I have NO doubt!! Enjoy the family this weekend!

If this is your version of a Thankful hangover, bring it on. It’s not only amazing to embrace our own feelings related to the season; but to see it emerge within our children is simply amazing. Like watching the best sunrise of your life every. single. day.

Happy Thanksgiving Weekend, I feel blessed and grateful to have found you, it has been awhile that you have been in my life (so much so that I have had Nella wander through my dreams, from time to time). Thank you for all you are and do. Please squeeeeeeeeeeze those precious girls for me and tell them that I am thankful for them too. Best wishes and Happy Holiday Season =)